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Making Road Safety Pay makes seven key recommendations which aim
to change the national focus on road safety over the next
decade. These will act as a platform for all road safety
stakeholders to discuss and develop new practical measures that
will set the UK on a track to achieving zero road deaths within the
next decade and reduce the cost of road crashes to the economy
estimated at 2% of GDP.

The recommendations include:

1. The Department for Transport should
develop a ten year 'Towards Zero' strategy for
road deaths.

2. The Government should pilot innovative
Social Impact Bonds ('Safety Bonds') to finance
new safety programmes.

3. The Government should introduce a
zero Insurance Premium tax (IPT) rate for insured
vehicles fitted with a telematics unit for drivers under the age of
25, based on a business case that includes data from real driving
experience given to the charity through Ageas's partnership with
ingenie.

4. Britain should develop a National
Older Driver Strategy and create a taskforce to implement
this plan.

5. Low speed Autonomous Emergency
Braking (AEB) should be standard on all new cars. The EU
should mandate low speed AEB as standard on new cars from 2017.

6. Minimum inbuilt safety levels of
4-stars are needed for the busiest national roads and
minimum 3-stars for all other national roads by 2025.

7.Establish an independent Road Safety
Inspectorate and raise the safety of local
authority 'A' roads to a 3-star minimum level by
2030.